The Italian GNOME community has a new planet.

I released the second alpha version of WinCalendarTime. WinCalendarTime replaces the standard Windows clock with an enhanced clock that displays a calendar when clicked, similar to the standard clock used by GNOME.

I need to share my mails between Linux and Windows, so now I’m using Mozilla Thunderbird sharing the database on a FAT file system. However I HATE THUNDERBIRD! It always corrupts its database and the filters.

Now it’s time to try the alpha version of Evolution for Windows.

First things I noted:

• It’s 47 MB!
• Why does it ask my time zone? It could just use the default one used by Windows and however using the time zone selector I’m not able to choose Rome as I always end up selecting the Vatican City.
• The GUI has some problems but I don’t know if it’s GTK or Evolution fault:
• Text is often cut
• The accelerators in the menu should be hidden by default on XP
• The “New” button is ugly and different from the other buttons
• The header of the list of messages seems composed by buttons

Both my purge extension and my patch to use add_path in the Windows installer have been pushed to crew so they will be included in the next release of hg.

Muntyan’s proposal for the Summer of Code 2006 has been accepted. This is really good news because he will integrate the new highilighting engine I and Emanuele Aina wrote as we do not have the time needed to do that.

When using CVS I always use cvspurge (from the CVS Utilities package) to delete the auto generated files that are not deleted by make distclean.

Mercurial does not have a similar feature so I wrote an extension for it that behaves like cvspurge.

Today our Prime Minister let us know that anyone who doesn’t vote for him is an asshole.